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An acquaintance from mine wanted to join my DnD campaign, and the other players didn't mind, so we took him in. I told him that we don't play in the often typical comedic style, but have a serious tone instead, and asked him for a character idea.
He suggested a halfling thief who had to leave his Shire-like location because nobody would put up with his stealing anymore. Sounded fine enough, though when we started playing, it turned he didn't mention that his thief is blind, and as such is terrible at stealing.
I told him that's a joke character, and that he can't be blind. So he played him seeing for the session, and then wanted to switch characters.
I found that agreeable, and he said he would play a wizard who had been basically kidnapped as a child by an evil wizard who wanted a student, but had run away from abuse. Then the next round, it turned out that his wizard was somehow illiterate and couldn't use scrolls.
I told him that's still a joke character, and he can't be illiterate. So he wanted to switch again, a dwarf fighter. I thought I'd be cautious and asked if there was anything debilitating about this character, he said no.
There wasn't, but as we played again, it turns out his dwarf fights with a 2,5m long sword by spinning around like a spintop. At this point I told him that he won't fit into our campaign and asked him to leave, which kind of ended the acquaintanceship too.
Well yea, it's just an acquaintance. But it points to him not understanding the issue of his characters, which my comment is about.
Sorry to hear, what do they play at the moment?
He played with us for three sessions and wouldn't stop acting like in a comedy skit. I have no issue not playing with people who do not want to, or are not able to, play a serious adventure. Especially considering that he asked to join.
My bad, I thought it had sounded to you like I was traumaposting.
I don't think he understood the issue with his characters, as I mentioned in other comments, you brought up the intentional clown behaviour.
But intentional or not, he either couldn't or wouldn't bring a serious character, and as such didn't fit into the group.
I don't feel obligated to accommodate for people who act like clowns on purpose.
If you put it like that it does sound rather negative, yea.
Well I mean, at least it makes somewhat sense to rely on your limbs alone if you're warforged? It's kind of like hitting someone with a club.
He played every session like a comedy skit.
Yea, for a humour campaign, the ideas are neat. Though I would probably change the blind thief to being really shortsighted? Being legit blind just sounds like a hassle.
Disabilities have different grades of impairment, and I'm saying that I find this one in particular too impairing for a character
Because they played them as in a comedy skit, and this isn't a comedic campaign.
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Even though I don't understand how it's possible, I believe that he didn't actually understand the issue. At least as it stands now, he cut off contact.